Search All 1 Records in Our Collections

Welcome to the new Collections Search. You can still use the previous version of the site at this link.

The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

Videotape testimony of Marian N., who was born in ś-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands in 1938. She has no memory of her German Jewish parents who placed her with a non-Jewish business associate in Geldrop before they hid in 1941. Mrs. N. recalls being moved to the Martins family in Horst, where she posed as a cousin from the city; playing with her "brothers," the Martins' two children; participating in church services and holiday celebrations; attending a convent school; bombings; German soldiers quartered in their home; and receiving candy from Canadian troops who liberated the area. She recounts meeting an uncle who was in the United States military; emigration to the United States in 1946; distress at leaving the Martins; adjustment difficulties in her adoptive family (another uncle); and a pleasurable visit to the Martins in 1959. Mrs. N. discusses her strong affinity for Catholicism; her poor relationship with her adoptive family; the late development of her Jewish consciousness; long believing she had not suffered enough to have an interesting story; and finally telling her story for the sake of her children. She shows documents detailing her parents deportation from Westerbork to Sobibor.

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.